Chicken Dressing Casserole
By
Joyce Lowery
@jlowery55
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Ingredients
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1whole chicken
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·salt
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7 sliceloaf white bread, toasted, cooled, and crumbled
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3hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped
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2 largeonions, chopped
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2 stalk(s)celery, chopped
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1/4 lbbutter
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2eggs, beaten
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3 Tbsppoultry seasoning
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1 tspsalt
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1 tspblack pepper
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1 tspvinegar
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1recipe cornbread, cooked and crumbled
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GIBLET GRAVY
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·liver, gizzards, and heart from one chicken
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2 Tbspshortening
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1 Tbspall purpose flour
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1 cchicken broth
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·salt and ground black pepper to taste
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3eggs, hard boiled and chopped
How to Make Chicken Dressing Casserole
- Place whole chicken in deep pot. Add water to cover. Salt the water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cook until fork tender, about 2-1/2 hours. Hold chicken in broth until completely cooled. Remove chicken from the broth, reserving broth. Remove meat from bones and chop, discarding skin. Set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, crumble cornbread and toast. Add chopped hard boiled eggs to mixture.
- In a large skillet, saute onions and celery in butter until translucent. Add to bread mixture.
- In a separate small bowl, combine beaten eggs, poultry seasoning, salt, pepper, and vinegar. Stir into bread mixture. Add enough chicken broth to create a moist consistency.
- Grease a 9-1/2 inch by 13 inch glass baking dish with butter. Evenly spread 1 cup dressing mixture in bottom of the dish. Add a layer of chicken. Top with remainder of dressing. Bake until browned and bubbly, about 40 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for 10 minutes.
- GIBLET GRAVY
Boil the liver, gizzards and hear in a large pot of simmering water for 40 to 50 minutes or until tender. Drain, chop, and reserve the giblets.
Melt shortening in a frying pan over medium heat. Add flour, stirring until light brown, about the color of peanut butter, about 5 minutes. Add chicken broth and stir. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add giblets and boiled eggs and stir to combine. Serve immediately or keep warm